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From Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.
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Noun
damask (plural damasks)
- An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
- True damasks are pure silk.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- […] but what struck Tom's fancy most was a strange, grim-looking, high backed chair, carved in the most fantastic manner, with a flowered damask cushion, and the round knobs at the bottom of the legs carefully tied up in red cloth, as if it had got the gout in its toes.
- A damask rose.
- A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
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damask colour:
- 1849, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
- Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.
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Adjective
damask
- Of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
- 1973, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
- My cage has many rooms / Damask and dark / Nothing there sings, / Not even my lark.
- 1973, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
Quotations
- 1602: But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek — William Shakespeare, Twlefth Night
- 1849: They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon. — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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Verb
to damask (third-person singular simple present damasks, present participle damasking, simple past and past participle damasked)
Translations
- Italian: damascare it(it)
Derived terms
- damascene
- damask rose
- damask steel
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (
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